Office:	3600 Cathedral of Learning
	4200 Fifth Avenue
	Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Phone:	412-648-7835
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E-mail:	bprimack@pitt.edu

Education
	BA, Yale University, 1991
	EdM, Harvard University, 1993
	MD, Emory University, 1999
	MS, University of Pittsburgh, 2008
	PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 2011

Training
	Family Medicine Residency, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Saint Margaret's Hospital (http://stmargarets.familymedicine.pitt.edu/), 2002

Dr. Primack has been the principal investigator on multiple federal grants from NCI, NIDA, and AHRQ (e.g., R01-CA140150, R01-DA034629, R21-HS022927, and R21-CA185767). He has also been a co-investigator on multiple NIH research projects funded by NICHD (R24-HD080194), NIAAA (R01-AA021347), NHLBI (R01-HL130388) and NIMHD (U54-GM119023-S1). The diversity of the source of these awards testifies to his multifaceted research interests, his penchant for collaboration, the marketability of his innovative ideas, and his passion for bridging disciplines. Dr. Primack is broadly interested in improving interpersonal communication, health care, and health outcomes in an increasingly technological and media-driven world. This includes trying to improve the patient-provider bond, reducing mental health problems, and decreasing addiction. Dr. Primack's work in these areas has been published in a wide variety of leading peer-reviewed journals in public health, medicine, and social science, including American Journal of Public Health, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Preventive Medicine, JAMA Pediatrics, JAMA Psychiatry, Public Health Reports, Tobacco Control, Journal of Adolescent Health, American Journal of Health Promotion, and Addiction. This research has been cited in leading international news sources including the New York Times, US News and World Report, the BBC, the Washington Post, and NPR’s “Here and Now.”

Dr. Primack trained in family medicine in order to leverage his interests in patient-provider communication, personalized and compassionate care, health promotion, and disease prevention. He has served clinically in multiple capacities, including in a federally-qualified health care center for the underserved, student health services at both the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, and general internal medicine. In addition to the outpatient work described above, Dr. Primack has done inpatient work at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, UPMC Presbyterian and Shadyside hospital, and UPMC Saint Margaret's.

Education was Dr. Primack's first graduate degree and his first job out of college. He has taught in communities as diverse as West Africa, inner city Boston, and leading Universities. He has also worked with students at levels as varied as middle school, college, graduate school, remedial adult education, and junior and senior faculty. He currently serves as Dean of the Honors College at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Primack received the University of Pittsburgh’s Outstanding Medical Student Mentor Award in both 2013 and 2014. The vast majority (85%) of his mentees are from underrepresented groups in academic health sciences. Dr. Primack has developed and implemented multiple creative educational experiences. These have involved not only public health and medicine, but also nursing, pharmacy, physician assistants, and undergraduate students. For example, he received the University of Pittsburgh Innovation in Education Award to develop and implement a series of interactive experiences around health literacy and patient-provider communication among various health sciences students. Dr. Primack also developed a successful series of modules involving “standardized patients” (actors) to help train students. He now leverages his expertise and interests as Dean of the Pitt Honors College to nurture the University's most outstanding students according to academic achievement, intellectual curiosity, and social service.

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